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we do, but we do it through mint.com because it's automatic. i don't last very long with spreadsheets!

Yes! My DH does and updates it almost daily (via spreadsheets). It's pretty crazy, but it keeps him sane. I almost never get budget updates unless we are really over.

Yes, we budget. With me not working right now, we have to be very careful about our finances.

We budget using a spreadsheet. It's really involved. I love doing it and knowing where our money is.

We have to budget!! We went 1.5 years married without a budget and constantly overdrafted or did the "pray and swipe" lol. Now we are so much more in control of our finances. Since we're a one-income household, we hard hardly anything leftover after bills are paid so honestly it's not that much work to budget because we just enter our bills for each month and then with the little bit leftover we put it toward debt, extra savings, or needs that we don't have each month such as clothes, extracurricular activities, date night etc.

We budget using a Dave Ramsey system where we budget each and every dollar.
This is what ours looks like:
Rent
Car Payment/Insurance
Gas/Oil change
Student Loans
Utilities: internet, gas, electric, water
Netflix
Groceries (one of the biggest expenses here too)
Savings
Diapers/wipes/baby

Each month we tend to have an extra payment or something we need - this month will be clothes as DH needs some new work clothes. Sometimes we budget for those things just a little each month so that in 6 months we have a nice chunk to use toward something. That's how we save toward big ticket items as well. We already have most of the $$ for DS's birthday party saved (3.5 mos away) because we've been putting a little aside each month. Definitely takes away from the blow of big expenses!

@Coco Bee: oh yes! That was us - we used to overdraft and be so confused about our money! budgetting and automatic savings deposits have saved us! I'm a huge Dave Ramsey fan, but I would get a nasty talking to from him if I ever called into his show because we don't budget every dollar and still eat out a lot with student loan debt to pay off. oh well, some budget is way better than nothing. And to answer orig question - food is definitely the hardest part, we loooove eating out. If we didn't eat out for a year, I could probably pay cash for a new car lol

We don't budget. I'm super stingy with my money and pretty much know in my head what our checking account balance is down to the penny at any given time. DH rarely buys anything when I'm not there so I don't really worry about that.
We have set up financial goals every month and distribute to our savings, retirement, education funds monthly. Everything over that doesn't really have a destination. I'd like to get better about budgeting, but every time I resolve to do so, I don't stick with it.

Nope. We are fortunate enough to be able to buy what we want without having to really plan ahead (except for super large purchases). Our credit card and mortgage get paid on the same day every month and the following day every month I take a look at the account and see what extra we have over our "cushion" amount for the month, and I split that excess between our investment account and the savings account we set up for the baby.

My husband is obsessive when it comes to doing the budget. I swear he does it every day based on what is in checking and what we have coming in. We talk about it and I see his math but I usually let him handle the budgeting. We are both pretty frugal though but it's nice knowing exactly what we have left over to play with.

We do.....and I admittedly constantly stare at said spreadsheet and wish there was more money in the + side, and less in the -. Lol. I'm always trying to figure out how to make a tighter ship, so to speak.

Yes, we budget and DH has financial statements for us. He's a dork. We are both in accounting/finance.